Candice Bergen at age 60 is a dynamic part of the ensemble of actors on “Boston Legal” and once commented, “A decade ago, I figured making it to 85 would be great. A vital 85.

“Then I thought, screw that. I’m going to live to 90. A vital 90… No, it still sucks. Living to 85’s not okay; living to 90’s not okay. Nobody wants to leave the party.”

[From the page: maturity]

Architect Oscar Niemeyer received the highest honor in his field, the Pritzker Prize, months after his 80th birthday, and at age 97 is developing one of his most ambitious projects, a mile-long seafront esplanade of buildings and open space in Brazil.

Samuel Ullman (1840-1924) wrote his poetic essay “Youth” in his seventies: “Youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life.

“Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in someone of fifty, more than in a boy or girl of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.”

[Slightly paraphrased, from Alabama Moments site]

But maintaining our vigor and vitality to be able to keep on trucking and creating into later life is not automatic.

In her article Age-Proof Your Brain, Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler writes, “Can we age-proof our brains, or even turn back the clock? Actually new anti-aging research is very promising.”
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